...and we wouldn't be able to move without uprooting our kids and selling our home.
My family did it as I was growing up, as that Dad moved us when better jobs were to be had for the family. (...) So, this isn't something new....families have done this for longer than I have lived.
A few kids do. I'm trying to think back and from 1st through 9th grade, out of ~50 pupils in two classes I'm struggling to remember even a handful that moved out of or into the school district, I remember two and it certainly wasn't every year. Maybe it's a cultural thing or that my neighborhood was exceptionally stable but my impression is that a lot of people are looking to move when they have toddlers, but then there's a decade's solid freeze until high school. In the short term I know people who drove 1-2 hour commutes each way, every day in order to stay put until they can find work closer to home. There are certainly those who'd drag their family along for even a modest raise or career advancement, but my impression is that for most it either takes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or they've lost their main income and fate more or less forces their hand.
The "right" way to do it is do away with time changes and DST, and simply move schedules an hour earlier. School starts an hour earlier, work starts an hour earlier, etc. But apparently this is psychologically too difficult to embrace
It's more about coordination than psychology. Maybe software developers are used to flexible hours but retail, healthcare, transportation and a lot of other sectors are tied to the clock. What happens if the school changes but work doesn't? What about contracts that specify working hours? Are stores willing to switch if customers split between early and late? What about rules for overtime pay that kick in at night? There's a million little things that make it easier for a majority to change the time zone rather than change everything else and then those who don't like it can try scheduling things an hour later if they can.
THIS is why voting needs to occur in private, but in a public location where individual voters CAN'T be coerced by anyone.
I feel another aspect is just as important, the fact that your identity is truly separated from your vote. If it's one thing computers are really good at it's surreptitiously logging what you do. No matter how you do it in order to make sure only eligible voters vote and only once you have to issue some kind of token that's linked to your identity. Even if you could build a magic box that only gives totals that's no good if you can poll it after every vote, if you can verify it's your vote and they kept the same info you got they can verify it's your vote. And then just count 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2 it's like a list of votes. The anonymity only works if nobody can get anything but the totals.
When I go to a physical secret election my name gets crossed off the voter list and I get a voting slip. It would be really hard to secretly give those a serial number. It would be very hard to put up a hidden camera in the voting stall to watch my actual vote-picking. And when they upend a ballot box there's a certain amount of shuffle, even if I was the first/last person of the day to vote it'd be really hard to pick out the top/bottom envelope as they start tallying votes. Electronic voting I'm always think you can have the official system and then you can have a shadow system. It's not about election fraud, it's about finding the dissidents. Who will be put under surveillance, silently kept out of key positions, discredited and so on.
Being able to vote without retaliation even when the opposition is in power is one of the most essential elements of democracy, it's what lets power peacefully pass from one government to the next. If the Great Leader can punish people for not voting for the Great Leader, then you're heading straight for a dictatorship/one-party state/sham democracy. And by the latter I mean a democracy where the real opposition is outlawed and the alternatives are government cronies who only pretend to compete for power so you can act like people chose it. And you never get the system in place when you really need it, it's like trying to create a military in the middle of an invasion.
Threadripper has the pci-e lanes to drive multi cards and yes the X8 does limit the high end video cards.
Just barely, but SLI/CF was niche to begin with and has almost disappeared which makes it often poorly supported/tested. I was foolish enough to try it with two GTX 970s and after annoying crashes and resets back to single card mode in the few games it actually gave a good boost I sold one, re-purposed the other and got a 1080 Ti instead. I'd not recommend dual cards if a single card was at all possible, like anything under a $1500 GPU budget I'd rather get a factory overclocked 2080 Ti.
Threadripper has some other big disadvantages like clock speed, single-threaded IPC, high memory latency etc. which means it just never makes sense as a gaming system. Even if you wanted to go crazy AMD dropped triple/quad-CF support just like nVidia did for SLI so most of those Threadripper lanes would go unused anyway. Not that I'm sure four Vega 64s could match two GTX 2080 Tis if you could, except maybe on price. Of course that's all for bragging rights anyway, you don't need any of that to game not even at competitive eSports level.
And the villains should be some "big is beautiful" anachists who's stolen it to pad the reference and redefine them as normal weight. Because that's totally how it works and it'd have instant effect on scales worldwide. And nurses would be oblivious too so skinny people start getting fattened up for severe undernourishment with intravenous HCFS and a prescribed junk food diet. The plot is actually so silly that if you just went all in it might make a good comedy.
The great question is whether extracting 'meaning' is in some sense simply a deep learning system that is better trained and able to use additional layers to provide context or whether 'meaning' is some categorically new thing that current approaches to machine learning are fundamentally missing.
Well I think it's clearly missing some abstract underlying model. Like if you showed it cats and non-cat statues, could it generate a cat statue? Of you show it cats and dead animals, could it plausibly create a dead cat? If you show it cats and paintings, can it make a painting of a cat? Can it even create a black and white cat from color swatches and cats of other colors? Will it think a human in a cat costume is a cat if it's only seen cats and humans in normal clothes? If you've only shown it pictures of dry cats and water can it picture a wet cat? No. It's trying to cover it up through being an expert on every superficial detail because it's seen a million cats in a million positions, but the understanding is as flat as the 2D image it's looking at.
You don't. You just fine the telecoms a significant amount of money for every spoofed robo-call. Let them worry about how to fix the problem. Once the fines start, I predict they will come up with a solution in about five minutes.
I think I already know the solution - pass the bill. Like if we get fined $10/call for spoofed robo-calls coming from $provider, put it in the contract that they pay us $10/call. Very soon that bill either lands on the spammer's doorstep or the source provider gets scammed and needs to improve their system, for example by putting funds in escrow.
There's no doubt that automation makes things cheaper but only if you stay employed at a constant wage. If you look at the US the median wage, like what a typical employee will make that has been flat for 50 years. Now tons of jobs have been automated since the 60s, why haven't the wages skyrocketed? Because it's supply and demand, your typical worker is barely able to keep the purchasing power he has. You see the top 5% and 10% are pulling ahead, never mind the top 0.1%-1% but those that aren't on the gravy train feel left out. Intelligent automation is not going to make this any better, those who create advanced systems and have unique skills become more valuable while routine work suffer wage depression. Even if that particular job can't be automated, there's too many people who want jobs of a moderate complexity compared to what's on offer.
That said, I don't think we're heading for a collapse because the rich and super-rich will give us just enough to keep the peace, it's not the French or Russian revolution where people are starving in the streets. With smarter technology the burden of providing non-productive members of society with the basics should get easier and easier. But if it goes in cycles with serfs and feudal lords, workers and factory owners then I don't think we're heading for utopia but more like another age of huge economic differences. Maybe not quite Elysium but Jeff Bezos got a hundred billions and they're multiplying faster than anyone's paycheck. You get a pittance to afford robot McDonald's, he makes his way to a trillionaire. I guess it's a win-win, but I know who's winning the most...
Also, it tends to improve the infrastructure the business depends on like electricity and network connections and it makes getting enough of an education to get these jobs make sense. A lot of the time the poorest areas are trapped in a catch-22, they can't get jobs and without jobs there's no money to improve anything. Obviously companies are doing this for profit and not charity but on the tail end of that exploitation it's actually more like an opportunity.
Maths isn't your strongest skill, I hope? If 80% of the drink is milk and 20% is coffee, then you need to take your milk with 25% coffee, not 20%.
English is not yours? Coffee + milk = coffee. Ice cream + toppings = ice cream. Additives don't count. If I say I take my coffee with 20% milk I think all native speakers would take that to mean 20% of the entire cup of coffee, not that I've added 20% to black coffee. Of course the pun here is that there's so much milk it's milk with coffee instead of coffee with milk. But it's still just 20%.
If you liked "Spiderman" you will probably like "Spiderman 2" or any of the awful super hero movies that have been out in the last 10 years. Genius.
That's what I'm thinking too, this algorithm will state the obvious but if you're trying to pick one of these five super hero movies to make next I really don't think the algorithm will capture what's actually a good character and story arc compared to what's not. I mean it doesn't really make sense to have a superspiderbatman, they're the same but they also have to be uniquely different. Even doing a prequel/sequel it has to build on the lore and character of the first movie. I can understand trying to analyze trailers to see what makes a good trailer. I really don't see how that makes a good movie.
Can someone comment on data throughput as a function of frequency. Do lower frequencies limit tower data rates?
Do you really have to ask? Double the frequency = double bits transferred/second, all other things being equal. But yes mmWave range is absolutely terrible, it's almost exclusively line-of-sight and suffers from rain fade too. Even in the best of conditions the maximum range of a mmWave tower is just 2-300 meters. Practically it's to give large crowds more bandwidth like stadiums, parks, big events and celebrations and maybe you'll see general deployment in city centers. The rest will be "normal" 4G frequencies upgraded with a bit better signal processing. I think it's been extremely over-hyped. I mean why don't we have 24-86 GHz WiFi? Because we'd have to install an antenna in every room...
If you want a healthy productive community, the correct way to handle repeated violations of policy is to document the policy and direct people to it when its violated.
They process is well documented and on the checklist here it's #6 (emphasis mine):
Any new or modified CONFIG options do not muck up the config menu and default to off unless they meet the exception criteria documented in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt Menu attributes: default value.
As usual Linus is ranting because people didn't read the basics, if somebody claimed ignorance I'm sure he'd provide the links but they're not exactly hard to find.
Most of the time relared problems and bugs aren't solved by storing times as UTC, though. (...) sometimes it's 23:59:60 UTC (...) The way to store times as as an integer since the epoch.
Adding leap seconds is its own source of bugs though, because "same time tomorrow" means one day whether that day is 86400 or 86401 seconds long. You don't want all your 12:00 appointments to become 11:59:59 appointments because you added a leap second. UTC solves 99.9% of all "human scale" time problems from different time zones and DST, not even the people who measure surgery time or how long you've been on anesthetic care about one second and even if they did the clock drift on consumer devices means it's all noise anyway. They do care about an hour's DST and that you've been under for -27 minutes though.
If you're running some kind of advanced technical system where extreme time precision (and not just timing precision like a 100m dash) is important then you should run on International Atomic Time (TAI) and still not give a fuck about leap seconds. They're only important if you're mapping from one "world" to the other and the difference is a simple offset table. In fact, I think making leap seconds expressible in UTC was a giant mistake in the first place. They should have just pointed to TAI and said if a "repeating" second is not acceptable use that.
But they all stem (in part) from the same root-cause: A slow realization that IT personnel is routinely not very good and that you would need far less IT people if the were really good. Of course, the usual implementation does it completely wrong by paying peanuts and then being surprised when they get monkeys.
Meh, sometimes you pay very expensive consultants and you still get shit. In my opinion there's way too much focus on the process and far too little focus on the actual output. And by output I don't mean the finished result, but from each step in the requirements -> solutions -> systems -> functions -> code chain. It doesn't matter that much if you're trying to cook and eat the elephant in one piece (waterfall), chunks (iterative waterfall), timeboxes (agile) or nibbles (continuous delivery) if it's still raw or spoiled.
I know everything is much easier in hindsight but every time we fail we should backtrack and see where we actually failed. Like, is this a code error, a low level design issue like a missing function, a high level design issue like the overall data flow is wrong, is it a requirement that was implied but not properly expressed? And then go back and see when we did this, why didn't we see it? Yes, some issues and needs you only learn about by actually running into the problem but a lot of other things are simply "we didn't think this through" and maybe we should.
All "professional" means is that you get paid to do work.
If that was the only meaning of the word no paid person could act unprofessionally and no volunteer act professionally. I think you miss how often "being a professional" means sucking it up and doing your job regardless of your personal feelings or abusive/irate behavior. Think being a defense lawyer for scum or a customer service representative that just got blasted with a curse-laden tirade. Or simply trying to keep objective standards and be a neutral judge even though one is a beer buddy and the other is not.
Can it be weaponized as a shield against retaliation or to goad people into acting unprofessionally and punishing them for it? Sure. A lot of people are abusive towards CSRs because they know they can't respond in kind. And if they do tilt, you can report them and they get reprimanded or fired. Which is why many have found their own secret ways to take revenge or give them bad karma. Voluntary professionalism is pretty much always a good thing, it's acting with respect and integrity. Imposed professionalism sometimes means being the doormat.
This is of course equally true in corporate politics, people will invoke professionalism to keep others from playing dirty tricks while playing their own dirty tricks. Nobody's claimed being professional means you always win, sometimes you have to either get down in the mud and wrestle the pig or walk away. And sometimes the game is just rigged so that you can't win. It's more of a personal standard, I won't stoop to that level.
In particular, the SEC has issued subpoenas to Tesla in connection with (a) Mr. Musk's prior statement that he was considering taking Tesla private and (b) certain projections that we made for Model 3 production rates during 2017 and other public statements relating to Model 3 production.
Good thing Musk never makes "aspirational" targets. Oh, wait...
Failure to predict the future is not illegal (...) As long as they weren't egregiously bullshitting
Predicting a future you aren't actually planning for can be illegal. Like if you're planning to open a new plant in six months you can't claim it's opening next quarter and then announce a three month delay later. If a machine is capacity limited to 3000 cars/week and you're not doing anything about it you can't project to make 5000/week. If you're not actually planning to pay shifts to work 24x7 you can't use that in your calculations. I think Musk is quite capable of padding the estimates beyond the "most optimistic projection" as a stretch goal. And normally I don't think anyone would bother, but now he's got the SEC pissed and looking for ways to throw the book at him.
That whole "going private" business only meant something to the people who bought/sold stock in that period, if you were sitting on it throughout it was just a paper valuation. If the SEC can show Musk misled all the investors through fraudulent production projections, now that could get nasty. Still seems rather unlikely but considering how poorly he seems to understand his obligations as a CEO of a public company, who knows. He doesn't seem to have any understanding of why we made rules about misleading public investors.
A trillion dollar company, supported in vast majority by (essentially) a single product. (...) Really, the whole iThing ecosystem came to be in 15 years, and it's a monoculture. It's a huge bet for it being sustainable.
Where that "one thing" is near the ultimate convergence device replacing your dumbphone, MP3 player, palm pilot, camera, GPS tracker and so on. And according to StatCounter more people browse the web on phones than desktops. There's a lot of good arguments against Apple, but this is a bit like saying a car company depends on a demand for cars. While that's true it's kinda hard to imagine modern society functioning without cars or something so close as to practically be cars. If I stare into the crystal ball I don't see smartphones going away the next 10, 20 or 50 years so the market seems extremely sustainable, the only question in my mind is if they're made by Apple.
There's lots of cheaper alternatives than Apple, there has been and there will be. But for a device that people use so much I don't think there's any reason to think the premium market is going away. And in some ways Apple is obviously pushing boundaries like with the A12/A12X chip, it's expensive but it's also the fastest on the market. And not everyone is a fan of the world's biggest data mining company being the other choice. If Apple is going down it's primarily because they priced themselves out of premium and into the luxury market with $1000+ phones. At least they support old phones so you can have one for years, unlike Android where all the cheap phones lose support real quick.
And IMHO they have one of the biggest market opportunities possible to launch their own ARM line of laptops/desktops and take over a huge market from Microsoft/Intel. Do they have weaknesses and threats too? Sure. This is not investment advice. But the people who declare it dead or dying will probably end up just as disappointed as those who wanted Micro$oft dead. They obviously fumbled the ball quite a bit and missed out on the whole phone market, but to really go away they have to hit a dead end hard. It happens sometimes like Nokia did, but that's actually the exception not the rule.
Oh look, NASA engineers are playing in the dirt. They might as well practice mining for gold in finely shredded cash. [Long rant about SLS and Orion]
Well then why are you trash talking the engineers that are actually doing what NASA should be doing? An ISRU factory for Mars is exactly the kind of unique, never been done before experiment with no obvious commercial potential that they should be working on, whether it's delivered via the SLS/Orion or BFR/BFS. I know SpaceX envisioned some day refueling their rockets on Mars but to my knowledge they haven't released as much as a sketch indicating they've seriously worked on it. With the R&D challenges they have with the BFR and the difficulty they have finding funding for it I'd be very surprised if they've done anything at all.
Well, things built for space tend to last a long time - the Voyagers are still in operation after 41 years. Hubble is 28 years old. The ISS is 20. Opportunity may have died in June but made it to 14 at least. Add the fact that a design like the JWST can take a decade or more it's quite likely there'll be 32 bit designs still active in 2038. But you would think at least somebody on the team would remember Y2K unless ageism has gone completely bonkers.
The rule requires constant human monitoring while the car is in use. There's still a "driver", just not in the car. This is more of a publicity stunt than a real change.
You're missing a couple essential words: "Continuously monitoring the status of test vehicles"
"If a Waymo vehicle comes across a situation it doesn't understand, it does what any good driver would do: comes to a safe stop until it does understand how to proceed. For our cars, that means following well-established protocols, which include contacting Waymo fleet and rider support for help in resolving the issue."
The way I read it is that there must be people on staff to make sure no car is stuck and help the cars get going again via remote operation, but there's no dedicated safety driver. It now depends on the car to alert the fleet operator that it needs help. If you got a clearer description that says other way please give a source, the master is probably the DMV site but it seems to be down right now.
But do they care... most picture aren't taken to be good, they are taken to remember or commemorate a moment or event, or to communicate to someone else something about yourself.
That was a long-winded way of saying dick pics. Maybe Facebloggers too, but trying to keep it classy.
What I'm most interested in is the SoC in the new iPad. It's probably more powerful than what they put in the new Air, so I'm wondering how much longer until Apple ditches Intel entirely. You have to think that they've been planning for it for some time now.
They might just be waiting for better capacity and higher yields, the A12 and A12X are still relatively small and max out at four high performance cores. It's impressive for a tablet but to replace the whole non-pro Mac line they'd probably want at least an 8-core and more GPU to drive big external monitors. They have the building blocks but when you look at the iPhone/iPad prices it might not be the time for an even more expensive SoC. Once AMD/nVidia are able to make big GPUs though the door is open for an A12XXL.
Going with Linux is all well and good right until you need to have a Windows machine ANYWAY for the one game you want to play with or at the same time as your friends.
This. For solo games I got a backlog of games I could play and most games work eventually and in the end it doesn't affect anyone other than myself. But when my friends swoon over some new AAA game then I have to join in on that. Heck, I'm getting a PS4 almost just to play Red Dead Redemption 2.
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...and we wouldn't be able to move without uprooting our kids and selling our home.
My family did it as I was growing up, as that Dad moved us when better jobs were to be had for the family. (...) So, this isn't something new....families have done this for longer than I have lived.
A few kids do. I'm trying to think back and from 1st through 9th grade, out of ~50 pupils in two classes I'm struggling to remember even a handful that moved out of or into the school district, I remember two and it certainly wasn't every year. Maybe it's a cultural thing or that my neighborhood was exceptionally stable but my impression is that a lot of people are looking to move when they have toddlers, but then there's a decade's solid freeze until high school. In the short term I know people who drove 1-2 hour commutes each way, every day in order to stay put until they can find work closer to home. There are certainly those who'd drag their family along for even a modest raise or career advancement, but my impression is that for most it either takes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or they've lost their main income and fate more or less forces their hand.
The "right" way to do it is do away with time changes and DST, and simply move schedules an hour earlier. School starts an hour earlier, work starts an hour earlier, etc. But apparently this is psychologically too difficult to embrace
It's more about coordination than psychology. Maybe software developers are used to flexible hours but retail, healthcare, transportation and a lot of other sectors are tied to the clock. What happens if the school changes but work doesn't? What about contracts that specify working hours? Are stores willing to switch if customers split between early and late? What about rules for overtime pay that kick in at night? There's a million little things that make it easier for a majority to change the time zone rather than change everything else and then those who don't like it can try scheduling things an hour later if they can.
THIS is why voting needs to occur in private, but in a public location where individual voters CAN'T be coerced by anyone.
I feel another aspect is just as important, the fact that your identity is truly separated from your vote. If it's one thing computers are really good at it's surreptitiously logging what you do. No matter how you do it in order to make sure only eligible voters vote and only once you have to issue some kind of token that's linked to your identity. Even if you could build a magic box that only gives totals that's no good if you can poll it after every vote, if you can verify it's your vote and they kept the same info you got they can verify it's your vote. And then just count 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2 it's like a list of votes. The anonymity only works if nobody can get anything but the totals.
When I go to a physical secret election my name gets crossed off the voter list and I get a voting slip. It would be really hard to secretly give those a serial number. It would be very hard to put up a hidden camera in the voting stall to watch my actual vote-picking. And when they upend a ballot box there's a certain amount of shuffle, even if I was the first/last person of the day to vote it'd be really hard to pick out the top/bottom envelope as they start tallying votes. Electronic voting I'm always think you can have the official system and then you can have a shadow system. It's not about election fraud, it's about finding the dissidents. Who will be put under surveillance, silently kept out of key positions, discredited and so on.
Being able to vote without retaliation even when the opposition is in power is one of the most essential elements of democracy, it's what lets power peacefully pass from one government to the next. If the Great Leader can punish people for not voting for the Great Leader, then you're heading straight for a dictatorship/one-party state/sham democracy. And by the latter I mean a democracy where the real opposition is outlawed and the alternatives are government cronies who only pretend to compete for power so you can act like people chose it. And you never get the system in place when you really need it, it's like trying to create a military in the middle of an invasion.
Threadripper has the pci-e lanes to drive multi cards and yes the X8 does limit the high end video cards.
Just barely, but SLI/CF was niche to begin with and has almost disappeared which makes it often poorly supported/tested. I was foolish enough to try it with two GTX 970s and after annoying crashes and resets back to single card mode in the few games it actually gave a good boost I sold one, re-purposed the other and got a 1080 Ti instead. I'd not recommend dual cards if a single card was at all possible, like anything under a $1500 GPU budget I'd rather get a factory overclocked 2080 Ti.
Threadripper has some other big disadvantages like clock speed, single-threaded IPC, high memory latency etc. which means it just never makes sense as a gaming system. Even if you wanted to go crazy AMD dropped triple/quad-CF support just like nVidia did for SLI so most of those Threadripper lanes would go unused anyway. Not that I'm sure four Vega 64s could match two GTX 2080 Tis if you could, except maybe on price. Of course that's all for bragging rights anyway, you don't need any of that to game not even at competitive eSports level.
And the villains should be some "big is beautiful" anachists who's stolen it to pad the reference and redefine them as normal weight. Because that's totally how it works and it'd have instant effect on scales worldwide. And nurses would be oblivious too so skinny people start getting fattened up for severe undernourishment with intravenous HCFS and a prescribed junk food diet. The plot is actually so silly that if you just went all in it might make a good comedy.
The great question is whether extracting 'meaning' is in some sense simply a deep learning system that is better trained and able to use additional layers to provide context or whether 'meaning' is some categorically new thing that current approaches to machine learning are fundamentally missing.
Well I think it's clearly missing some abstract underlying model. Like if you showed it cats and non-cat statues, could it generate a cat statue? Of you show it cats and dead animals, could it plausibly create a dead cat? If you show it cats and paintings, can it make a painting of a cat? Can it even create a black and white cat from color swatches and cats of other colors? Will it think a human in a cat costume is a cat if it's only seen cats and humans in normal clothes? If you've only shown it pictures of dry cats and water can it picture a wet cat? No. It's trying to cover it up through being an expert on every superficial detail because it's seen a million cats in a million positions, but the understanding is as flat as the 2D image it's looking at.
You don't. You just fine the telecoms a significant amount of money for every spoofed robo-call. Let them worry about how to fix the problem. Once the fines start, I predict they will come up with a solution in about five minutes.
I think I already know the solution - pass the bill. Like if we get fined $10/call for spoofed robo-calls coming from $provider, put it in the contract that they pay us $10/call. Very soon that bill either lands on the spammer's doorstep or the source provider gets scammed and needs to improve their system, for example by putting funds in escrow.
There's no doubt that automation makes things cheaper but only if you stay employed at a constant wage. If you look at the US the median wage, like what a typical employee will make that has been flat for 50 years. Now tons of jobs have been automated since the 60s, why haven't the wages skyrocketed? Because it's supply and demand, your typical worker is barely able to keep the purchasing power he has. You see the top 5% and 10% are pulling ahead, never mind the top 0.1%-1% but those that aren't on the gravy train feel left out. Intelligent automation is not going to make this any better, those who create advanced systems and have unique skills become more valuable while routine work suffer wage depression. Even if that particular job can't be automated, there's too many people who want jobs of a moderate complexity compared to what's on offer.
That said, I don't think we're heading for a collapse because the rich and super-rich will give us just enough to keep the peace, it's not the French or Russian revolution where people are starving in the streets. With smarter technology the burden of providing non-productive members of society with the basics should get easier and easier. But if it goes in cycles with serfs and feudal lords, workers and factory owners then I don't think we're heading for utopia but more like another age of huge economic differences. Maybe not quite Elysium but Jeff Bezos got a hundred billions and they're multiplying faster than anyone's paycheck. You get a pittance to afford robot McDonald's, he makes his way to a trillionaire. I guess it's a win-win, but I know who's winning the most...
Also, it tends to improve the infrastructure the business depends on like electricity and network connections and it makes getting enough of an education to get these jobs make sense. A lot of the time the poorest areas are trapped in a catch-22, they can't get jobs and without jobs there's no money to improve anything. Obviously companies are doing this for profit and not charity but on the tail end of that exploitation it's actually more like an opportunity.
Maths isn't your strongest skill, I hope? If 80% of the drink is milk and 20% is coffee, then you need to take your milk with 25% coffee, not 20%.
English is not yours? Coffee + milk = coffee. Ice cream + toppings = ice cream. Additives don't count. If I say I take my coffee with 20% milk I think all native speakers would take that to mean 20% of the entire cup of coffee, not that I've added 20% to black coffee. Of course the pun here is that there's so much milk it's milk with coffee instead of coffee with milk. But it's still just 20%.
If you liked "Spiderman" you will probably like "Spiderman 2" or any of the awful super hero movies that have been out in the last 10 years. Genius.
That's what I'm thinking too, this algorithm will state the obvious but if you're trying to pick one of these five super hero movies to make next I really don't think the algorithm will capture what's actually a good character and story arc compared to what's not. I mean it doesn't really make sense to have a superspiderbatman, they're the same but they also have to be uniquely different. Even doing a prequel/sequel it has to build on the lore and character of the first movie. I can understand trying to analyze trailers to see what makes a good trailer. I really don't see how that makes a good movie.
Can someone comment on data throughput as a function of frequency. Do lower frequencies limit tower data rates?
Do you really have to ask? Double the frequency = double bits transferred/second, all other things being equal. But yes mmWave range is absolutely terrible, it's almost exclusively line-of-sight and suffers from rain fade too. Even in the best of conditions the maximum range of a mmWave tower is just 2-300 meters. Practically it's to give large crowds more bandwidth like stadiums, parks, big events and celebrations and maybe you'll see general deployment in city centers. The rest will be "normal" 4G frequencies upgraded with a bit better signal processing. I think it's been extremely over-hyped. I mean why don't we have 24-86 GHz WiFi? Because we'd have to install an antenna in every room...
If you want a healthy productive community, the correct way to handle repeated violations of policy is to document the policy and direct people to it when its violated.
They process is well documented and on the checklist here it's #6 (emphasis mine):
Any new or modified CONFIG options do not muck up the config menu and default to off unless they meet the exception criteria documented in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt Menu attributes: default value.
As usual Linus is ranting because people didn't read the basics, if somebody claimed ignorance I'm sure he'd provide the links but they're not exactly hard to find.
Most of the time relared problems and bugs aren't solved by storing times as UTC, though. (...) sometimes it's 23:59:60 UTC (...) The way to store times as as an integer since the epoch.
Adding leap seconds is its own source of bugs though, because "same time tomorrow" means one day whether that day is 86400 or 86401 seconds long. You don't want all your 12:00 appointments to become 11:59:59 appointments because you added a leap second. UTC solves 99.9% of all "human scale" time problems from different time zones and DST, not even the people who measure surgery time or how long you've been on anesthetic care about one second and even if they did the clock drift on consumer devices means it's all noise anyway. They do care about an hour's DST and that you've been under for -27 minutes though.
If you're running some kind of advanced technical system where extreme time precision (and not just timing precision like a 100m dash) is important then you should run on International Atomic Time (TAI) and still not give a fuck about leap seconds. They're only important if you're mapping from one "world" to the other and the difference is a simple offset table. In fact, I think making leap seconds expressible in UTC was a giant mistake in the first place. They should have just pointed to TAI and said if a "repeating" second is not acceptable use that.
But they all stem (in part) from the same root-cause: A slow realization that IT personnel is routinely not very good and that you would need far less IT people if the were really good. Of course, the usual implementation does it completely wrong by paying peanuts and then being surprised when they get monkeys.
Meh, sometimes you pay very expensive consultants and you still get shit. In my opinion there's way too much focus on the process and far too little focus on the actual output. And by output I don't mean the finished result, but from each step in the requirements -> solutions -> systems -> functions -> code chain. It doesn't matter that much if you're trying to cook and eat the elephant in one piece (waterfall), chunks (iterative waterfall), timeboxes (agile) or nibbles (continuous delivery) if it's still raw or spoiled.
I know everything is much easier in hindsight but every time we fail we should backtrack and see where we actually failed. Like, is this a code error, a low level design issue like a missing function, a high level design issue like the overall data flow is wrong, is it a requirement that was implied but not properly expressed? And then go back and see when we did this, why didn't we see it? Yes, some issues and needs you only learn about by actually running into the problem but a lot of other things are simply "we didn't think this through" and maybe we should.
All "professional" means is that you get paid to do work.
If that was the only meaning of the word no paid person could act unprofessionally and no volunteer act professionally. I think you miss how often "being a professional" means sucking it up and doing your job regardless of your personal feelings or abusive/irate behavior. Think being a defense lawyer for scum or a customer service representative that just got blasted with a curse-laden tirade. Or simply trying to keep objective standards and be a neutral judge even though one is a beer buddy and the other is not.
Can it be weaponized as a shield against retaliation or to goad people into acting unprofessionally and punishing them for it? Sure. A lot of people are abusive towards CSRs because they know they can't respond in kind. And if they do tilt, you can report them and they get reprimanded or fired. Which is why many have found their own secret ways to take revenge or give them bad karma. Voluntary professionalism is pretty much always a good thing, it's acting with respect and integrity. Imposed professionalism sometimes means being the doormat.
This is of course equally true in corporate politics, people will invoke professionalism to keep others from playing dirty tricks while playing their own dirty tricks. Nobody's claimed being professional means you always win, sometimes you have to either get down in the mud and wrestle the pig or walk away. And sometimes the game is just rigged so that you can't win. It's more of a personal standard, I won't stoop to that level.
They're cinema cameras so 17:9, 8192x4320 resolution.
Well according to the quote from Tesla here:
In particular, the SEC has issued subpoenas to Tesla in connection with (a) Mr. Musk's prior statement that he was considering taking Tesla private and (b) certain projections that we made for Model 3 production rates during 2017 and other public statements relating to Model 3 production.
Good thing Musk never makes "aspirational" targets. Oh, wait...
Failure to predict the future is not illegal (...) As long as they weren't egregiously bullshitting
Predicting a future you aren't actually planning for can be illegal. Like if you're planning to open a new plant in six months you can't claim it's opening next quarter and then announce a three month delay later. If a machine is capacity limited to 3000 cars/week and you're not doing anything about it you can't project to make 5000/week. If you're not actually planning to pay shifts to work 24x7 you can't use that in your calculations. I think Musk is quite capable of padding the estimates beyond the "most optimistic projection" as a stretch goal. And normally I don't think anyone would bother, but now he's got the SEC pissed and looking for ways to throw the book at him.
That whole "going private" business only meant something to the people who bought/sold stock in that period, if you were sitting on it throughout it was just a paper valuation. If the SEC can show Musk misled all the investors through fraudulent production projections, now that could get nasty. Still seems rather unlikely but considering how poorly he seems to understand his obligations as a CEO of a public company, who knows. He doesn't seem to have any understanding of why we made rules about misleading public investors.
A trillion dollar company, supported in vast majority by (essentially) a single product. (...) Really, the whole iThing ecosystem came to be in 15 years, and it's a monoculture. It's a huge bet for it being sustainable.
Where that "one thing" is near the ultimate convergence device replacing your dumbphone, MP3 player, palm pilot, camera, GPS tracker and so on. And according to StatCounter more people browse the web on phones than desktops. There's a lot of good arguments against Apple, but this is a bit like saying a car company depends on a demand for cars. While that's true it's kinda hard to imagine modern society functioning without cars or something so close as to practically be cars. If I stare into the crystal ball I don't see smartphones going away the next 10, 20 or 50 years so the market seems extremely sustainable, the only question in my mind is if they're made by Apple.
There's lots of cheaper alternatives than Apple, there has been and there will be. But for a device that people use so much I don't think there's any reason to think the premium market is going away. And in some ways Apple is obviously pushing boundaries like with the A12/A12X chip, it's expensive but it's also the fastest on the market. And not everyone is a fan of the world's biggest data mining company being the other choice. If Apple is going down it's primarily because they priced themselves out of premium and into the luxury market with $1000+ phones. At least they support old phones so you can have one for years, unlike Android where all the cheap phones lose support real quick.
And IMHO they have one of the biggest market opportunities possible to launch their own ARM line of laptops/desktops and take over a huge market from Microsoft/Intel. Do they have weaknesses and threats too? Sure. This is not investment advice. But the people who declare it dead or dying will probably end up just as disappointed as those who wanted Micro$oft dead. They obviously fumbled the ball quite a bit and missed out on the whole phone market, but to really go away they have to hit a dead end hard. It happens sometimes like Nokia did, but that's actually the exception not the rule.
Oh look, NASA engineers are playing in the dirt. They might as well practice mining for gold in finely shredded cash. [Long rant about SLS and Orion]
Well then why are you trash talking the engineers that are actually doing what NASA should be doing? An ISRU factory for Mars is exactly the kind of unique, never been done before experiment with no obvious commercial potential that they should be working on, whether it's delivered via the SLS/Orion or BFR/BFS. I know SpaceX envisioned some day refueling their rockets on Mars but to my knowledge they haven't released as much as a sketch indicating they've seriously worked on it. With the R&D challenges they have with the BFR and the difficulty they have finding funding for it I'd be very surprised if they've done anything at all.
Well, things built for space tend to last a long time - the Voyagers are still in operation after 41 years. Hubble is 28 years old. The ISS is 20. Opportunity may have died in June but made it to 14 at least. Add the fact that a design like the JWST can take a decade or more it's quite likely there'll be 32 bit designs still active in 2038. But you would think at least somebody on the team would remember Y2K unless ageism has gone completely bonkers.
The rule requires constant human monitoring while the car is in use. There's still a "driver", just not in the car. This is more of a publicity stunt than a real change.
You're missing a couple essential words:
"Continuously monitoring the status of test vehicles"
"If a Waymo vehicle comes across a situation it doesn't understand, it does what any good driver would do: comes to a safe stop until it does understand how to proceed. For our cars, that means following well-established protocols, which include contacting Waymo fleet and rider support for help in resolving the issue."
The way I read it is that there must be people on staff to make sure no car is stuck and help the cars get going again via remote operation, but there's no dedicated safety driver. It now depends on the car to alert the fleet operator that it needs help. If you got a clearer description that says other way please give a source, the master is probably the DMV site but it seems to be down right now.
But do they care ... most picture aren't taken to be good, they are taken to remember or commemorate a moment or event, or to communicate to someone else something about yourself.
That was a long-winded way of saying dick pics. Maybe Facebloggers too, but trying to keep it classy.
What I'm most interested in is the SoC in the new iPad. It's probably more powerful than what they put in the new Air, so I'm wondering how much longer until Apple ditches Intel entirely. You have to think that they've been planning for it for some time now.
They might just be waiting for better capacity and higher yields, the A12 and A12X are still relatively small and max out at four high performance cores. It's impressive for a tablet but to replace the whole non-pro Mac line they'd probably want at least an 8-core and more GPU to drive big external monitors. They have the building blocks but when you look at the iPhone/iPad prices it might not be the time for an even more expensive SoC. Once AMD/nVidia are able to make big GPUs though the door is open for an A12XXL.
Going with Linux is all well and good right until you need to have a Windows machine ANYWAY for the one game you want to play with or at the same time as your friends.
This. For solo games I got a backlog of games I could play and most games work eventually and in the end it doesn't affect anyone other than myself. But when my friends swoon over some new AAA game then I have to join in on that. Heck, I'm getting a PS4 almost just to play Red Dead Redemption 2.